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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Who thinks the AAP program is that much better than the base program?

Who thinks the teaching is better?[/quote]
You have the wrong idea. AAP program is not "better " than GE. Rather,, it has a different curriculum and  is designed to better suit the AAP students.[/quote]

It isn't really that different.  BTDT.[/quote]

OP here:  I totally agree.  I do not have the wrong idea.  It may be a different curriculum but it is not better suited.  It is meh.  The math is more advanced, but I see nothing that great about anything else.  If anyone else thinks differently, you're fooling yourself.[/quote]

Absolutely agree.  It is a program meant to appease pushy parents and stroke their ego into thinking their child is actually in a "gifted" program.  It's all a bunch of busy work and extra projects that any child could handle.  Also BTDT.[/quote]

Sorry if your individual kid had a lousy experience with one specific AAP class or center, but my kid's schools (elementary and middle) have had good AAP center teachers who did a lot of things differently from the base curriculum teachers. Not busy work or just extra work, but more in-depth, more trust that kids could understand bigger concepts, and much more creative with classroom discussions, mock legislatures, games where kids took on roles to help them understand history better-- too many things to go into in detail here. The teachers have been very engaging with the kids, much more so than some of the base teachers he had before he started AAP. Everyone's experience is different and the program can differ widely depending on which AAP center a kid is at, which teachers the kid gets within a center, etc. But our experience was very good, and that's really all we can use to form opinions....My child's base school in grades K-2 had a lot of issues educationally and no possibility of any AAP enrichment other than a once-weekly pull-out class at that time and maybe a little math 'tracking' in later elementary for kids good at math (though those kids often ended up mostly helping other kids do math rather than being taught on a more advanced level, according to friends who were at that school). I can't see how we would have done better to stay there and not try AAP.

If your kid's teachers just give out busy work "that any child could handle" to AAP students, go gripe to the teachers and do something about it.[/quote]

I am a different poster, but my experience was not that the AAP teachers handed out busy work.  But that the gen ed teachers at the base school taught the way you are talking about to the gen-ed classes too.  SO, for us, there was not so much difference.  I am sorry your base school experience was so poor. [/quote]

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